Re: [PATCH 1/4] fix endianness bug in l2cap_sock_listen()

From: Marcel Holtmann
Date: Fri Jul 27 2007 - 10:39:39 EST


Hi Al,

> We loop through psm values, calling __l2cap_get_sock_by_addr(psm, ...)
> until we get NULL; then we set ->psm of our socket to htobs(psm).
> IOW, we find unused psm value and put it into our socket. So far, so
> good, but... __l2cap_get_sock_by_addr() compares its argument with
> ->psm of sockets. IOW, the entire thing works correctly only on
> little-endian. On big-endian we'll get "no socket with such psm"
> on the first iteration, since we won't find a socket with ->psm == 0x1001.
> We will happily conclude that 0x1001 is unused and slap htobs(0x1001)
> (i.e. 0x110) into ->psm of our socket. Of course, the next time around
> the same thing will repeat and we'll just get a fsckload of sockets
> with the same ->psm assigned.
>
> Fix: pass htobs(psm) to __l2cap_get_sock_by_addr() there. All other
> callers are already passing little-endian values and all places that
> store something in ->psm are storing little-endian.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Dave, all four patches are good and should go in sooner than later. If
you want me to put them into my tree first, then I can do that or you
can apply them directly. You choice.

Regards

Marcel




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